Buddy Holly grew up there. Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock made fabulous music there. Delbert, too. Have you heard the story of a young Joe Ely picking up a hitchhiker with a guitar? …

That thought occurred to me when I walked back into my hotel room at 3:37 Sunday morning. I’d just watched a great World Series game. I’d also seen people falling-down drunk before the first pitch was …